[LuxWeeklyNews] UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON

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LUX weekly news 11th – 18th September 2006
UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON

1. Mark Wallinger, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London. 12 September -  
15 October
2. Art and film, international exhibitionist no6 – Moving in  
Architecture, Curzon Soho, London 12 September 2006, 6pm
3. Idris Khan, inIVA, London. 13 September - 22 October
4. Artprojx: The End of the West, a double bill of artist’s Westerns.  
Wednesday 13 September 2006, 9-11pm
5. Cinema of Prayoga. Indian Experimental Film and Video 1913-2006,  
Tate Modern, London. 15th – 19th Sept.
6. Oliver Bancroft, Painting/Film, studio 1.1, London. 15 September -  
15 October.
7. DESTRICTED, Curzon Soho, 15 - 16th September, 11pm



1.
Mark Wallinger - Anthony Reynolds Gallery
12 September - 15 October
Tuesday - Saturday 10.00 am- 6.00 pm
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, 60 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F  
7BG, 0207 439 2201, info at anthonyreynolds.com

2.
Art and film, international exhibitionist no6 – Moving in Architecture
12 September, 6pm
Curzon Soho, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London
0870 756 4620
www.curzoncinemas.com
A sort of artists’ conversation and collaboration; filmmakers respond  
to the works of art at Camden using their own canvas of film, with  
the same subject in mind. How do we relate to buildings, how do they  
influence us, and us them? A proposition by Cyril Lepetit from  
International Exhibitionist produced in collaboration with Camden  
Arts Centre to accompany the Archipeinture: Painters Build  
Architecture exhibition.
Short films such as…
Paul O’Neill‘s video footage is shot from the window of a car  
waltzing crazily around an enormous French parking lot to music by  
Strauss.

3.
Idris Khan - inIVA
13 September – 22 October 2006
Wed - Sat, 12 - 6pm & Sun, 15 Oct. 12 - 6pm
inIVA, 6-8 Standard Place, Rivington Street, London EC2A 3BE
Information: +44 (0)20 7729 9616
http://www.iniva.org/season/atlasII/project_09
One of the UK's brightest emerging talents, Idris Khan, creates  
mesmerising layered photographs. Whilst they are reminiscent of early  
pin-hole photography, they are actually produced by digitally  
scanning and over-laying image upon image. Concerned with the  
repetition of history, his photographs have a lyrical filmic quality,  
almost appearing to move before your eyes. In his own words, he  
'wanted to see if the photographs would spin or melt or move from  
side to side'. Through his dizzying layering of images, texts and  
musical scores, the elusive fleeting characteristic of how we  
experience events and remember them is evoked. Idris Khan received an  
MA from the Royal College of Art in 2004 and has exhibited with  
Victoria Miro Gallery.


4.
Artprojx with MOT International presents: The End of the West, a  
double bill of artist’s Westerns.
Wednesday 13 September 2006, 9-11pm
Artprojx at Prince Charles Cinema
7 Leicester Place, London WC2.
Box Office: +44 (0) 20 7494 3654 (open 1-9pm)
Tickets £10.00
Artist and Student ticket discount information visit  
www.artupdate.com/artprojx
Artprojx and MOT International present a double bill of artist’s  
Westerns; with two seminal films that each hammers another nail into  
the genre’s coffin. Long before Brokeback Mountain, Andy Warhol’s  
Lonesome Cowboy seemed to be the last possible word, yet since then a  
number of artists have managed to excavate a little deeper.
The evening will open with Rodney Graham’s mini costume drama, How I  
Became a Ramblin’ Man, which catches a cowboy in a narrative  
digression as he plays us his wandering song and then departs back  
across the prairie whence he came. Next you will be treated to a live  
performance of Shezad Dawood’s, For a Few Rupees More in which one of  
Pakistan’s leading sitar players, Nafees Ahmed improvises to  
soundtracks from Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Westerns. Originally  
composed by Ennio Morriconne, Dawood has cut them up to fit his own  
film that he then decided not to make, leaving a blank screen and the  
lone sitar player mixing East and West as he weaves between the  
recognizable score and more traditional themes. So dust off those  
Stetsons, get on your horse and ride on over to the Prince Charles  
Cinema for an evening of prairie songs, spaghetti and cheese, truly  
the last word on Westerns.



5.
Cinema of Prayoga
Friday 15 September – Tuesday 19 September 2006
Indian Experimental Film and Video 1913–2006
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended
www.tate.org.uk/modern
For the first time in the UK, Cinema of Prayoga presents the rich and  
unseen artists' film from India. Prayoga is a Sanskrit word which  
loosely translates as 'experiment' in English but can also mean  
'representation'. Over the past three years no.w.here has worked  
closely with its Indian partner organisation Filter India to  
establish the Experimenta festival in Mumbai and Delhi to provide a  
platform for international artists' film work in India.
During this period, no.w.here and Filter have researched a rich vein  
of visual-arts based work that, despite the huge popularity of Indian  
cinema, remains relatively unknown. This project aims to present  
these works to UK audiences in a comprehensive appraisal of film work  
outside of the popular Bollywood films for which India is  
traditionally known. Cinema of Prayoga draws on a broader context of  
the arts for its influence than just cinema and traces a history of  
powerful and personal filmmaking outside of the industrialised system.

Friday 15 September 2006, 19.00
Cinema of Prayoga
Private and Public Prayoga
Phalke and Films Division
Programme duration 80 min
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended
www.tate.org.uk/modern
In 1913, when DG Phalke’s pioneering personal cinematography gave  
magical movement to Indian mythology, India was still a British  
colony. A versatile artist (painter, engraver, photographer,  
architect, musician, magician, actor and more), Phalke was a complete  
karmayogi (man of action). A significant figure, he personified the  
prayoga spirit in those awkward times, mixing a patriotic swadeshi  
spirit with an experimental cinematographic praxis – negotiating folk  
theatre and epic, myth and modernity, anti-colonial complexity and  
realism, in his construction of gaze, frame, space and time.
Phalke’s surviving incomplete films are followed by work from the  
state-funded public body, Films Division (1968–79). With these  
postcolonial artists, the cinematographic prayoga praxis fell largely  
into the public domain

Saturday 16 September 2006, 18.00
UBS Openings: Saturday Live
Migration and [Dis]location
Part of Cinema of Prayoga:
Indian Experimental Film and Video 1913–2006
Programme duration 75 min
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended
www.tate.org.uk/modern
A significant feature of contemporary Indian experimental film  
practice is the emergence of influential work by NRI (non-resident  
Indian) artists. In a variety of contexts, these artists live, study  
and/or work outside India and are returning to explore their cultural  
roots.
The films in this programme map these processes of migration, spatio- 
temporal disjuncture and cross-cultural dialogue, pointing to the  
range of self-reflexive strategies deployed by NRI artists in  
negotiating their postcolonial status. The films screened include  
Shumona Goel's portrayal of alienation and dislocation in Bombay,  
Anuradha Chandra's process-specific meditation on time and  
interiority, and Xav Leplae's ludic restaging of a 1973 Bollywood  
classic.


Sunday 17 September 2006, 18.00
Cinema of Prayoga
Kaal Abhirati (Addiction to Time)
Amitabh Chakraborty, India 1989, subs, 120 min
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended
www.tate.org.uk/modern
'In the extended opening shot of Kaal Abhirati, little boys enter and  
exit the frame at periodic intervals, emptying buckets of water in a  
garden, with long gaps between appearances. Watching, you begin to  
anticipate them, constructing ‘time’ yourself. With no  
characterisation, no dramatic confrontation, no resolution, I was  
guided more by the gross physicality of the medium, the texture of  
skin, the white of bed sheets – how would they combine in my frames,  
become a picture, move? As an audience, if you indiscriminately  
engage with the sheer physicality of these arbitrary movements and  
repetitions, my images begin to unravel their logic. The first shot  
sets up this chakkar (cycle) and, in that sense, maybe constitutes  
the film itself.'
– Amitabh Chakraborty

Sunday 17 September 2006, 15.00
Cinema of Prayoga
Indian Video Art
Between Myth and History
Programme Duration 66 min
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended
www.tate.org.uk/modern
Starting out in the early 1990s, Indian video art has so far brought  
forward about thirty artists who have incorporated this ‘new’ medium  
in their means of expression. Their video works give an original  
account of the dramatic political history and the rapidly changing  
society of the Indian subcontinent.
This programme includes a wide range of single-channel works from  
experimental artists who live and work in the big cities of India,  
including Nalini Malani, Tushar Joag, Valay Shende from Mumbai, Anita  
Dube from New Delhi, and Pushpamala from Bangalore.
The screening is followed by a panel discussion featuring Johan  
Pijnappel, Shai Heredia, Amrit Gangar, and Surekha Kumar.
Curated by Johan Pijnappel

6. Oliver Bancroft, Painting/Film - studio 1.1
15 September - 15  October
Friday to Sunday 12 noon to 6:00 pm
studio 1.1
57a Redchurch Street
London E2 7DJ
http://www.studio1-1.co.uk
Running the gamut from Piero di Cosimo to very early Cezanne via a  
bomb-blast in Iraq, without pausing for breath or looking anything  
like Peter Doig…
This will be Oliver Bancroft’s first solo London show.
After taking a BA and MA in Fine Art at De Montfort University,  
Bancroft was included in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2004, Young  
Masters 2005, and the show ‘The World, Abridged’ the same year at  
Kettle’s Yard.
The show will include film work as well as paintings. Not to  
demonstrate some flamboyant technical eclecticism – though there is  
flamboyance here – but to try and pick apart the symbiosis that  
Bancroft finds within the two practices. It isn’t a painterly film- 
maker we’re dealing with (that would be anathema) he’s an altogether  
rarer thing - a filmic painter, whose considerable painterly skills  
are informed by his strong cinematic intelligence.

7.
DESTRICTED - Curzon Soho
15th, 16th September 2006
Curzon Soho
99 Shaftesbury Avenue , London
0870 756 462038
www.curzoncinemas.com
Destricted is the first short film collection of its kind, bringing  
together sex and art in a series of films created by some of the  
world's most visual and provocative artists and directors. They  
reveal the diverse attitudes by which we represent ourselves  
sexually. Formed in 2004, Destricted is a platform for all forms of  
uncensored artistic expression, manipulating and embracing the  
expression of sex through art. Short films such as…DEATH VALLEY (dir.  
Sam Taylor-Wood) 7 mins 58 secs, HOIST (dir. Matthew Barney) 14 mins  
36 secs



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